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Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Private Spaceflight Gets A New Boost From Silicon Valley Bessemer Venture Partners, which manages more than $4 billion in capital and primarily invests in cybersecurity and enterprise technology firms, announced a new aerospace investment practice this week.  |
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011 McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 |
Research and Markets Unveils U.S. Aerospace Industry Analysis The U.S. aerospace industry deliveries are expected to surpass $184 billion this year-up more than 8% from last year's $170 billion, according to experts.  |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.  |
National Defense February 2016 Sandra I. Erwin |
CEOs Not Yet Ready to Take a Gamble Defense executives don't have clear answers as they weigh investment choices in an uncertain market.  |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Fortune Tellers See a Mix of Boom and Bust For the defense industry, depending on whom you talk to, these are the best of times, and the worst of times.  |
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Managing the Defense Industry: Stalinism or Smart Business? America's arms manufacturers are asking the Pentagon to step up and protect the industry from an imminent collapse.  |
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Air Force Budget Ax Aimed at Big-Ticket Satellites The U.S. Air Force is hoping to save hundreds of millions of dollars by converting three of its costliest satellite programs into fixed-price contracts.  |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008 |
Vulnerable Computers NASA's networks and Web sites, built to be accessible to contractors, have suffered numerous intrusions.  |
National Defense April 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Technology At a Crossroads: Can the Pentagon Regain Its Innovation Mojo? The Defense Department may never become the technological juggernaut it once was, but with the groundbreaking innovation happening in the private sector, the challenge for the Pentagon is to tap emerging technology.  |
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.  |
National Defense August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Can the Pentagon Build 'Affordable' Weapons Systems? The average U.S. consumer can expect to buy a better computer or smart phone every year, for less than what he paid before. The Pentagon, alas, only gets raw deals.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller |
Defense Executive: News for Defense Industry Managers Defense Executive will inform senior managers in the military and aerospace industries about the latest and most timely information on emerging markets, contract awards, contracting opportunities and more.  |
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Despite SecDef Pleas, Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation War As a result of not knowing what technologies are available, the military ends up with systems that become obsolete within a few years.  |
National Defense May 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Should the Pentagon Rescue Ailing Suppliers? It is an inevitable consequence of plunging budget cycles that suppliers go out of business, and the Pentagon typically has favored a laissez-faire industrial policy even though the defense sector is far from a free market.  |
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Companies See Bright Spots in Bleak Market There are still companies that have the stomach to invest in defense. Some actually view these tough times as an opportunity to win new business.  |
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Stan Crock |
Less Bang For The Big Guns The defense biz is hot, but the most profitable contractors are the little guys. While the primes want to emphasize their improved return on investment, the subs are beating them at that game, too.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Estro Vitantonio |
Military and aerospace component manufacturers learn from the commercial market Military and commercial component suppliers traditionally have done business in different ways. Not so much anymore, however. And the changes are all for the better.  |
National Defense May 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Recalibrating Strategies For a Declining Defense Market The defense market is shaping up to become a Darwinian world where winning contracts will be a matter of life or death for many companies.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John Keller |
Aerospace Industry Sales to Reach $210.64 Billion Next Year, AIA Says Total aerospace industry sales includes revenues from civil and military aircraft, missiles, space, and aerospace products and services.  |
InternetNews November 22, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
IBM Flies Into Aerospace Electronics IBM has notched an electronics and engineering deal from Honeywell, a major win in Big Blue's push with aerospace and defense contractors.  |
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Acquisition Business Reaches Inflection Point Acquisition flops over the past decade have put the fear of God into Pentagon leaders who now face the added pressure of having to ensure programs perform in a zero-tolerance environment, and with budget cuts to boot.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale |
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Ronald c. Jost to Keynote Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Conference in March Session topics include: COTS integration panel discussion, COTS acquisition, software-defined radio and the Joint Tactical Radio System program, IPv6 and its influence on military systems, information assurance, and more.  |
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Small Businesses: Showered With Praise, But Not Shown Much Love While Pentagon higher-ups and politicians shower praise on small businesses, in the muddy trenches of government contracting, it can be ugly. According to industry accounts, the entire procurement process is a path strewn with obstacles.  |
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Must Avert 'Points of Failure' in Supplier Base, Says Industrial Policy Chief With the U.S. military still involved in two major conflicts, the Defense Department must ensure that certain sectors of the defense industry remain financially healthy.  |
InternetNews November 30, 2009 |
Microsoft, Lockheed Martin Sign Simulator Pact Microsoft and Lockheed Martin have announced a deal to license the software titan's simulation software - dubbed "ESP" - for use in the aerospace firm's battle training simulations.  |
Popular Mechanics June 19, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
7 Expert Answers for How Big Business Will Spend Cash in Space At the first-ever Space Business Forum in New York, leading rocket scientists, military officers and even hedge-fund managers crunched the numbers to illuminate the future of the space industry.  |
Fast Company May 2010 Zachary Wilson |
A History of America's Military-Industrial Complex Highs and lows in the relationship between the U.S. armed forces and the corporate world.  |
Fast Company July 2000 Christine Canabou |
Chief Detonator Job Titles of the Future: Chris Holten-Hempel  |
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009 |
Reforming the Weapons Budget White House efforts to curtail military spending have had mixed results. Here are some examples.  |
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John McHale |
F-35 JSF and FedEx Experts Keynote 2010 Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum and Avionics USA The director of mission systems and software for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program at Lockheed Martin and the senior advisor for Global Air Traffic Operations at FedEx will deliver the keynote addresses at the conference.  |
National Defense February 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Downturn Should Be Manageable The defense industry lobby made a strategic miscalculation by using job-loss scare tactics in the fight against Pentagon budget cuts.  |
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications.  |
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.  |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
Is Curtiss-Wright for You? Although the company is seeing renewed demand in the commercial aviation and energy/petrochemical industries, the stock more or less reflects that bump quite plainly.  |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Rich Smith |
Core Stock: Lockheed Martin 60 years, 1 trillion dollars. Can't go wrong.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 |
Military Technologies Conference March 15-16 Will Center on Military Transformation The conference's three modules reflect three of the most pivotal technologies for leading the U.S. military into the 21st century and for transforming it from an industrial-age to an information-age force.  |
BusinessWeek May 15, 2006 Eamon Javers |
Stealth Spending At The Pentagon How the Air Force is keeping the costs of expensive new fighter jets under the radar.  |
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Why the Mightiest Military Can't Get Enough Trucks The political circus that has surrounded the procurement of mine-resistant armored vehicles for troops in Iraq comes as no surprise.  |
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.  |
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Expand Work Force Based on Quality, Not Quantity, Warns Former Pentagon official The Defense Department should be careful in how it goes about expanding its acquisition work force  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Report: $1.9 Billion Invested In Space Travel Startups Since 2014 Venture capital database CB Insights released the report, titled "Future of Frontier Tech," which also says that drone startups have raised $285 million since 2014 and virtual/augmented reality companies $1 billion.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John McHale |
COTS Integration and Acquisition is Focus of Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Dr. Stephen M. Jarrett, chief technologist of the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) will discuss solutions to COTS integration challenges and other issues facing defense COTS electronics designers.  |
National Defense December 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Mighty Pentagon Can't Deny Market Forces Market forces are such that the Defense Department could be headed toward a future of greater dependence on fewer and increasingly more powerful monopolies.  |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Out of This World Google will be teaming up with NASA to build out NASA Research Park, a huge million-square-foot facility within NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. There, the two parties will work together on technology-based research projects.  |
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
War Over Defense Jobs Diverts Attention From Bloated Spending Each branch of the military owns multiple fleets of surveillance and armed drones, creating unneeded duplication.  |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
Not So Goodrich It's not quite up, up, up, and away for this aerospace company today. Investors, this is a cyclical company that probably isn't earning back its cost of capital.  |
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Defense Contractors: We've Got Your Back As Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated plans to cut in excess of $100 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, they also try to reassure that they're not out to hurt anyone -- least of all investors.  |